Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast, hosted by historian Dr. Garrett Dirkmont,

where we explore the early days of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

and gain rare historical insights into how a young farm boy was able to establish a new church

and grow it by way of visions,

manifestations, and miracles.

Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast.

I'm Garrett Dirkmont, your host.

I'm joined here with my co-host, Richard Leduke.

Hello?

And we just, we did a two-part podcast on the martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith.

But there were some other information we wanted to talk about. We didn't, we don't want the

podcast to be so long that, you know, we, we assume that you sleep through most of them,

but, you know, we didn't want to

interrupt your sleep pattern so much. So we decided we'd add this as a supplemental podcast,

as a bonus episode that can talk about some of the particulars of the martyrdom,

that really kind of, there's some questions surrounding some of the things that happen,

and we can discuss that.

And just as a little bit of an extra benefit as you study that over these couple of weeks

surrounding the martyrdom and its anniversary.

One of the things that I think is a fascinating aspect of the martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith is we're not entirely

sure how it is that the events of the actual murder took place.

And what I mean by that is most of us are most familiar with the explanation of events that is in Doctrine

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